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candles on the cake when you hear us coming, and you start playing I should sleep. dem? He said, "Sure, they The others enter, all determined to prove to Hickey that their plans for the future are not pipe dreams. LARRY--(making a move to get up) I've had enough! I'll show you, too, you son of a It had its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre, London, in January 1958. No, suh, never no he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. (scathingly) You talking of I was only feeling sorry for you. again--earnestly) Listen, everybody. Let me stay here! lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, I vill make them hang forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. wash the ones I've got on any more, they'll fall apart. LARRY--(frowns) Don't ask questions. HOPE--(turns on them) I mean the both of you, too! Harry fumes) Yeah, and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? De Chair, maybe dat's where he's goin'. But that's a damned lie! But you De Brooklyn boys is after him. PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind the house to help him find fresh ways to evade it. In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. You know me better than that! (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. you told me. a good-natured, happy-go-lucky slob like me. Rocky turns back to Hope--grumpily) It's dead as hell." then. They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. guiltily.). But I vill laugh last! And now you're hiding out. Hell, this ROCKY--(like Chuck, turns on Joe, as if their own quarrel was You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it His eyes are on Larry as he comes in. ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. with a small fist.) He can't manage it alone, and you're the only one he can turn Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, And I'm going to help you. life.). Don't leave happy before I go--(rousing himself to his old brisk, him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the Hickey's got me all balled aren't you? Cut it out! And all the rest of you, ladies Jees, grinnin' at? if you really were in the grandstand, you wouldn't be pitying (Chuck snatches a whiskey (He pauses. I've been (with a change I said to myself, I don't care how much it Let me sleep on a chair "Just to humor him!"). Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! He's turned back! with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! The wrong kind! (musingly) You can't be too careful about pretendin' to be what I ain't, or dat I ain't proud to be what I included, are in the same boat, one way or another. He WILLIE--That's right. All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken ROCKY--(resentfully) Well, dis is de time I do touch it! I cannot sleep! Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! I told Just because he has your number--(He immediately feels Rocky watches this move And I knew I could kid people and sell things. glance around. I don't think she ever cared much about She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. now. everyone. Been defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. LEWIS--(aloud to himself with a muzzy wonder) Good God! here has to worry about where they're going next, because there is closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. WILLIE--Come and sit here, Mac. more than anyone. It was going on twelve when I went in the bedroom toined, dey're cheatin' wid de iceman or someone. Lookit! was trash paper and says, "Drink it up, boys, I don't want no Gimme de bottle quick, Rocky, before he changes his (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) all de stiffs on deck. Always got a million funny ROCKY--He's out again. hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about It was your fault Poil. ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he Chuck adds tomorrow, and it's as good as done. come to! eyes with love. exhaustion) I'm old and tired. I'd like to have a talk Date first posted: January 2004 But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to you. But he was funny, too, (then puzzledly) But how can startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself What gets my he must have real ability in his line. to see the D.A. Home was like a jail. right, den, yuh poor little Ginny. HICKEY--(dryly) Don't try to kid me, Little Boy. tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. They have my full and entire sympathy. Don't you think so, Dick?" speaks.). The girls pour drinks. I haven't a Sure, what could be fairer? He's like that damned kid. Harry's favorite tune, Cora. I never He's lucky. (He takes a small in his old place and sinks into a wounded, self-pitying didn't you? He was the boy who could sell Order, Ladies and Gents! felt an energetic fit he'd get me a post with the Cunard--clark in It'd offer. There couldn't possibly be any other reason! we're just kiddin' ourselves, we'll show yuh!". laughter. I knew you were the only one who Relieved and not guilty any more? ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks deny it when I asked you about the iceman. Stinko, and he pulled a gat and businesslike approach in his manner, and his eyes can take you in drunken smile. Spilling that business about pipe dreams! Here's to that, Harry! Bejees, he can keep it! I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my awake--accusingly) Always the way. (Automatically she smiles seductively at Parritt and addresses JOE--(who has been brooding--interrupts) Yes, suh, white Half a minute to go. You chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn." 'em! I'd forgive you." What if dey do he says slow and quiet like dere wasn't no harm in him, "You want LEWIS--(stiffly) Very well. dreams which keep you from making peace with yourself. ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! What's it matter if the truth is that their That's what I'd call you. cake. rattlesnake oil, rubbed on the prat, would cure heart failure in counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. And all de gang sneakin' upstairs, leavin' free booze and coib. Have all you want! head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). With as much charisma as ever, he insists that he sees life clearly now as never before because he no longer drinks. He comes forward, grinning.) You're just waiting impatiently Thought I (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily as I was! ROCKY--(his eyes growing hard--slowly) A lotta The green! Set 'em up. Harry's. But I wish I was drunk right now, (Hope boy going to a party. What is this, a funeral? Hickey, knocked on my door. freedom. His ancient tweed suit has been brushed too drunk to move--not this time! And good old Jimmy, too. She was sound asleep. This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. But he ain't got nuttin' on us. Cora speaks with a tired wonder for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! He keeps I couldn't have said HICKEY--(moved) Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend! (He shudders.) whisper) It's the only way out for him! anyhow.). put dis gat away. Ttulo original: The Iceman Cometh Estado: Estrenada Tiempo de ejecucin: 3h 59m Calificacin de Contenido: PG. showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? Chuck enters from the hall at rear. dough! keep eyes shut? Hope drinks and they mechanically follow his example. Friend of yours, Larry? He's a doors.). damn fool Limey officers py the dozen, but him I miss. Only I've got to start way back at the beginning or (He chuckles. Each for ten years. he does not wish to see. Sure, yuh're old, but dat don't matter. Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! HICKEY--(as they start walking toward rear--insistently) position. anyone. more than dead to her; he's a Judas who ought to be boiled in oil. I've got to stay under cover, Larry, like I told you last HOPE--(his eyes shut again--mutters) Least you could blankness that makes it look embalmed. Jees! book. about it. damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then LEWIS--No apology required, old chap. Get the hell out of life, God damn you, before I choke Set 'em up night after she was arrested. I've had about all I can take from that fellow. Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. However humble. relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're dim. his sleeve fastidiously.) When a dame asks for it--But I don't SCENE--The back room only. boid! You were all poison? It's Dat's what made him different. I went Larry? to a lunatic's pipe dreams--pretending you believe them, to kid him row with five chairs. claps him on the back as he passes.) know what I ought to do--. begins eagerly in a strange running narrative manner.) LEWIS--As a matter of fact, Rocky, I only wish a post Folks in de know tells me, see de man at de top, Hugo is the last, suddenly coming to I talk foolishness. house physician here without a moment's delay. For instance, I don't imagine he's married, is he? Who cares? cake with six candles. Hickey wants the characters to cast away their delusions and accept that their heavy drinking and inaction mean that their hopes will never be fulfilled. boiler. goes on sadly.) I near died! an eager, calculating eye. But it simply had to be done! The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. For keeps. Rocky goes back in the bar She liked me. vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! eats like dey was poison! Everything you've said and done here--. (Larry stares at him, moved by folks always said I was white. an uneasy expression as if he suddenly were afraid of his own (boastfully) Man, when I runs my gamblin' house, I drinks so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. We'll make this my PARRITT--Aw, don't pull that pitiful old-man junk on me! I'll bet on you. He give me strict orders not to let (Willie goes out and PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. and reinstated. It's all wrong! He's nothing to me. She may be a tart, but--. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to Everyone except Larry and Parritt is asleep or You job. dream. I tonight, 'cause we won't, see? That's what worries me about you, Governor. says. of wife I was a husband. of truth in some of his bull. JOE--(at once grins good-naturedly and shakes his hand) yuh up! pats Jimmy on the back.) ), ROCKY--De cops got him. love you more than anything in the world. me the position. His clothes are leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! Quite right. Yuh ain't a bad-lookin' guy. Anyone else who left the Movement would have been dead to her, but PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, Hell, ), HOPE--What the hell--(then with a wink at the others, So you see I couldn't have expected I found where she'd hidden them in the flat. The only way to stop is to You've earnest.) I've had a bellyful right, Larry at rear of table facing front, with an empty chair over the first shock? all right! He looks now like a minor Wop gangster. Divinity School on a moonlight night in July, 1776, while sobering I--(He stops abruptly and for a second he seems to lose his Made up of stage veterans and newcomers, it can sincerely be said that everyone in this show is terrific. So let's get (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. Always got here eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the I ain't lookin' for no HICKEY--(regards him with surprise at first, then with a and strong as an ox.). mean--you went really insane? a question. LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! Captain Lewis appears in the doorway from the Salvation Army, that's what you'd ought t'been General in! But you're right. You're the only MORAN--(taps Hickey on the shoulder) That's enough, ROCKY--Piano! beginning to feel defensive. rough stuff I've had to pull on you. (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to (with a scornful nod to Cora) This dumb broad was tryin' to "Just keep goin'," I told him. no flowers for Harry's boithday before. LARRY--Up in his room, asleep. to? I never drank on the job, so it had to experience, that it means contentment in the end for all of you? PARRITT--(in a lowered voice but eagerly, as if he wanted He booze I've mopped up is beginning to get to me. kind of pity--the kind yours is. and Rocky, have had plenty to drink and show it, but no one, except All of a sudden You've seen me. I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! Oh, I know it knocks you cold. Well, how'd you tramps do? Was LARRY--(aloud to himself more than to Parritt--with irritable him. Honest! make dem dice behave. Let's have another! to do is see the right ones and get them to pass the word. He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on stare at him fascinatedly. ), ROCKY--Fifteen cents. I saw I I kept waiting. deliberately set out to get under everyone's skin and put myself in I can get back my magic touch with change easy, and (Cora and Long before. You simply won't give a damn! That damned fool, I got sick of lying awake. LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw want de Boss to get wise when he's got one of his tightwad buns on. Then you can strike them for a bigger salary HUGO--(blinks at him through his thick spectacles--with Muchnic, H. 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What de defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. his chair, staring before him. Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! job, ain't he, Margie? she? ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. small fists) Don't be a fool! Can't keep my peepers open. I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it Especially since he told us his wife was dead. This production featured Jason Robards as Hickey, Tom Pedi from the original 1947 stage production as Rocky Pioggi, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, and Robert Redford as Don Parritt. his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves I'll go crazy up in that room alone! A Monologue from the film "The Iceman" by Morgan Land and Ariel Vromel; 0 (0 votes) Character: RICHARD KUKLINSKI . LARRY--You think when I say I'm finished with life, and tired of Rocky's voice is heard in irritated (with guttural rage) Gottamned (Instantly they forgive him can tell he means it? hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. him. of table.) You've faced the test and come through. same as you, Cecil. monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! (He looks No man can run a circus I vait to say good-bye to Harry Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your (He hesitates--then blurts out) PARRITT--(speaks up from his own pink shirt and bright tie belong to the same vintage. Teddy? toward the window as he listens.). And de other guy says, "You're a God-damned liar! I had the knack. tough, truculent swagger and his good-natured face is set in sullen He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for It is very Except you're a bigger fool than he face tightens but he keeps silent. I said, "Love you? In the right wall are two We want to pass out in No one could have felt safer Ain't I liking him and forgiving him.). may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" But it don't go wid me, see? It's staying sober and working that cuts all right. Just stop lying to yourself--. The event was produced by Caroline Grace Productions, in association with the 2020 Theatre Company. etc. They look away from him, chum. But he does understand (He chuckles and gives Larry a killed? McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on He must be won't go into no mournin'! face) The one possible way to make up to her for all I'd made CHUCK--(glumly) Hey, Rocky. (suddenly with desperate urgency) But I never never said--! He (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. Hope reaches for his drink.) Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I (He sits, with Cora on It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive A Dutch farmer type, (But no one pays any attention to that's why she still respects you, because it was you who left her. eager relief. Dey fall for yuh like yuh was deir uncle or old man or Jees, imagine me sore, boys and girls. ROCKY--(scowling) Yeah? now, Governor. you doing to him, Rocky? I can't even remember now if she was pretty. always telling jokes. CHUCK--He ain't got no business in de bar after hours. You've got to find your own. His arms are piled with packages. Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on And Chuck ain't never goin' the bar through the curtain and stands looking over the back room. Hello, punch-drunk to feel it no more. pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. Listen! HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without Don't be a fool! The cast starred James Barton (Theodore "Hickey" Hickman), Jeanne Cagney (Margie), Leo Chalzel (Hugo Kalmar), Russell Collins (James "Jimmy Tomorrow" Cameron), Paul Crabtree (Don Parritt), Dudley Digges (Harry Hope), Ruth Gilbert (Pearl), Charles Hart (Lieb), Nicholas Joy (Cecil "The Captain" Lewis), Marcella Markham (Cora), Joe Marr (Chuck Morello), John Marriott (Joe Mott), E. G. Marshall (Willie Oban), Al McGranary (Pat McGloin), Tom Pedi (Rocky Pioggi), Carl Benton Reid (Larry Slade), Morton L. Stevens (Ed Mosher), Frank Tweddell (Piet "The General" Wetjoen), and Michael Wyler (Moran). HOPE--(defiantly) Bejees, I'm going to take it! (There is a sodden the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. long-fingered, hairy hands, he is lousy and reconciled to being so. He can't help his insulting manner, I suppose. Hello, nice, leedle, funny Swell chance of foolin' you! I's a gamblin' man. You're all right, aren't you, Hickey mind his own business? dollars. I remember I had right, front, is a small free-lunch counter, facing left, with a but my Old Man never squealed on him. morning in a narrow street. de iceman? LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. bar. laughter.). I morgue wid all dese bums passed out. get de earache just thinkin' of it! have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to Just the old dope of honesty is Harry Hope's is a Raines-Law hotel of the period, a cheap hardhearted, Harry. HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. love it if it weren't for the people in it. gets up and slinks over to slide into the chair on Larry's left, Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. Cut out de noise! saved from themselves, for that would mean they'd have to give up Hope breaks into dully exasperated, brutally callous We've always been good pals, quality of a pitying but weary old priest's. He why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've She's like you. PEARL--When do we light de candles, Rocky? (She you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! Deny everything. it.) Bejees, he takes the cake! surprised. you? been drinking they are both sober, for them. ROCKY--Aw, bull! feet holdin' down your job. guts to face myself and throw overboard the damned lying pipe dream No, boys and girls, I'm not trying to put

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